The other interesting thing is that in most other sports there are fans who
can watch in real time... up till now this has been impossible for
contesting, but now with real time scoreboards which can also provide links
to webcams and other station info it provides a way for those who have no
idea what contesting is about to look in and see what is happening. This
has got to be more interesting than an article in a magazine about something
that happened 9 months ago. It can be real fun to give out a webcam address
during a run and have someone a few qso's later ask you to wave to the
camera! Adding a real time score like on my page is better, but having a
site with scores of others and links to their cams has to be even more
interesting... not only for the participants, but others also.
David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Don Field
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 16:41
> To: k1ttt@arrl.net
> Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Scoreboards ???
>
> Surely in almost every sport the participants know how the competition is
> doing. We don't erect screens between the tracks on an athletic field, for
> example! Why would contesters want to be different if they could have this
> info?
>
> Don G3XTT
>
> On 7/12/06, David Robbins K1TTT <k1ttt@arrl.net> wrote:
> >
> > Try it, you may like it! It is tremendously interesting to watch a race
> > with a local competitor with a similar station, even if you know you
> won't
> > win the world/country or whatever in your class. Everyone sets goals
> for
> > themselves, if that is just to beat last year's score, that's ok... but
> > its
> > much more fun to challenge someone you know you can compete with in real
> > time! MUCH more interesting than waiting 6 to 9 months to see where you
> > fall in the world totals. Making it interesting by letting users filter
> > the
> > data will be up to the 'reader' software writers... right now we are
> > working
> > mostly on how to collect as much data as possible by making it easy for
> > everyone to submit to the scoreboard. My hope is that even if you don't
> > want to watch the scores, that you will submit so that others can see a
> > broad range of participants in many classes.
> >
> >
> > David Robbins K1TTT
> > e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
> > web: http://www.k1ttt.net
> > AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> > > bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ken Widelitz
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 23:22
> > > To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> > > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Scoreboards ???
> > >
> > > Yuri, K3BU makes a number of good points.
> > >
> > > Apart from an unusual event such as WRTC where the operators behind
> the
> > > calls are unknown (and the operators can't see the scoreboard anyway)
> > why
> > > would a serious competitor want to post his score and/or see what the
> > > competition is doing - for all the good reasons Yuri points out.
> > >
> > > Just because something can be done, doesn't make it something you
> > > necessarily want to do. Some feel that way about spotting networks.
> > > However,
> > > spotting is a 3rd party act that a competitor has no control over.
> > Posting
> > > your own score in realtime IS something a competitor has control over.
> > >
> > > 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
> > >
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